Several takeaways from the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships that ended Saturday in Stockholm, Sweden, after four days of competition highlighted by Nathan Chen’s brilliant free skate to win his third straight world title:
1. What’s next for Nathan Chen after yet another stunning performance, this one with five clean quadruple jumps, a striking interpretive affinity to his music and the mental strength to forget the fall in the short program that had left him some eight points behind longtime rival Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan?
Pandemic-related uncertainties make his planning uncertain.